Joe Ferguson

Football Player

Male

BornApr 23, 1950

Joseph Carlton Ferguson, Jr. is a former American football quarterback in the NFL. He played high school football in Shreveport, Louisiana for Woodlawn High School, guiding the Knights to the Louisiana High School Athletic Association Class AAA state championship in 1968. Ferguson succeeded Terry Bradshaw as Woodlawn's starting quarterback.… Read More

News + Updates

' We have some questions for the 25 aldermen who voted Wednesday to gut the ordinance assigning oversight of the City Council to Inspector General <mark>Joe Ferguson</mark>. What assurances can you give taxpayers that the $100 million-a-year workers\' compensation fund is being managed correctly? What safeguards... \n \n '

'A consensus has emerged that the pending ordinance bringing the Chicago City Council under the jurisdiction of Inspector General <mark>Joe Ferguson</mark> is long overdue. Extending the inspector general’s scope provides necessary oversight of the legislative branch, replacing the toothless office of the legislative... \n \n '

'by Amanda Hitt \n \nAmericans love pork. But they\'d probably think twice about biting into that slice of bacon or Spam sandwich if they knew about the U.S. Department of Agriculture\'s high-speed slaughter program. Fortunately, a few brave USDA meat inspectors have come forward to let folks know what\'s really going on in some pork plants across the country. Based on what they say, it\'s time to slow things down. \n \nUnder the Department of Agriculture\'s high-speed inspection program, ...

' Nathan Ferraro and <mark>Joe Ferguson</mark>, chemists at Rust-Oleum\'s Research and Development Laboratory in Pleasant Prairie, Wis., contributed this article to LiveScience\'s Expert Voices: Op-Ed &amp; Insights. When a drop of liquid contacts a surface, it creates a \"contact angle\" — the angle formed between the edge of the drop and the surface it rests on. The higher the contact angle, the more likely a liquid will roll off a surface. A superhydrophobic surface repels water to an extr...

Timeline

Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Joe Ferguson.

CHILDHOOD

1950Birth
Born on April 23, 1950.

TEENAGE

196818 Years Old
Ferguson played high school football in Shreveport, Louisiana, for Woodlawn High School. He guided the Knights to the Louisiana High School Athletic Association Class AAA (the top classification at the time) state championship in 1968.
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TWENTIES

The Buffalo Bills selected Ferguson in the third round of the 1973 NFL Draft.

Although he is most famous for playing with the Bills from 1973 to 1984, Ferguson also played three seasons for the Detroit Lions and two seasons for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and one final season with the Indianapolis Colts.
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Ferguson placed in the top 10 in pass attempts five times, completions and passing yards four times, passing touchdowns six times, and yards per pass three times. At one time he shared, with Ron Jaworski, the NFL record for consecutive starts by a quarterback with 107, until he was replaced by Joe Dufek on September 30, 1984. He has a 1–3 record in the NFL postseason, winning against the New York Jets in 1981. His three losses came from the Cincinnati Bengals in those same playoffs, the San Diego Chargers the year before in 1980 (a game in which he played the entire contest with a sprained ankle), and in 1974 to the Pittsburgh Steelers. He retired after the 1990 season after playing only one game with the Colts. Read Less

197525 Years Old
In 1975 Ferguson tied Fran Tarkenton for the NFL lead with 25 touchdown passes and compiled a passer rating of 81.3.

THIRTIES

198030 Years Old
Ferguson also surpassed 20 touchdown passes in three other seasons: 1980, 1981, 1983.

FIFTIES

200555 Years Old
In May 2005, Ferguson was diagnosed with Burkitt's lymphoma cancer and underwent treatment at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

In February 2008, he was treated at M.D. Anderson in the intensive care unit for pneumonia.

200959 Years Old
In July 2009, it was reported that Ferguson had recovered from his battles with cancer.

LATE ADULTHOOD

201262 Years Old
Ferguson played college football at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where he held the school's single game record for most completions until broken in 2012 (31 against Texas A&M in 1971) and in that same season was named the Southwest Conference's Offensive Player of the Year.